Advantages: Stunning location views and history, friendly llamas
Disadvantages: Altitude sickness, hypothermia, food poisoning, exhaustion, terrible food

Machu Picchu in Peru is one of those views that you just have to see once in your life. Everyone has seen the classic photo, always apparently taken from exactly the same place on the descent down a mountain towards the ancient site. My trip there, howeve ... Read review

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Excellently-related, and with the additional merit of making me regret much less than I did not having attempted the trail myself. by torr

- E - top reviewing by 1st2thebar

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Advantages: Nothing
Disadvantages: Nothing

My ciyy Lima the hometown of Peru, is the principal City of the country, because we have a downtown, about the Spanish times for tree centuries with many Catholic Churches as the Cathedral, La Merced, San Marcelo, San Domingo Churches an Arms and San Mar ... Read review

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I would love to visit - the architecture sounds fasinating. Maureen x x by MAFARRIMOND

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Why stay some time in Lima
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Lima = globalisation at its worst
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My hometown
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Advantages: A five-star stay…
Disadvantages: …with just three-star facilities

Why does one like or dislike a hotel? Sometimes the reasons are obvious - a clean, polite place will beat a rude, slovenly one in anyone's book - but sometimes they're not. Naturally, the criteria vary from person to person. In my own case, having s ... Read review

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Another splendid South America review. I want to go back to Peru again soon. by AndrewPo

It sounds like a very charming place to stay and I love the pictures. by Cat199

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It looks like a really tranquil place to be. I'd love to visit it one day. this is somewhere I'd really be able to relax.

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The Price of Peacefulness
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Advantages: Intriguing past, beautiful interiors, peaceful atmosphere
Disadvantages: The history that made it possible

The convent of Santa Catalina doesn't look much from the outside. Its long outer wall blanks off one side of an otherwise busy street near Arequipa's central square. Arequipa is known as the "white city" because much of it is built of sillar, the loca ... Read review

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Excellent review by AndrewPo

Fab review, my darling! Shall be back tomorrow with an E! Sounds like a very interesting place! XX by bandcamp

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Advantages: Majestic setting, fascinating relics and history
Disadvantages: Your fellow-visitors, risk of poor visibility, cost

Yes, it looks just like in the photographs. Perched high amid improbably pointy peaks, with sheer slopes dropping away to either side. After you've craned your neck to peer down into the deep canyons, you can gaze up at the surrounding ring of equally ... Read review

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Fantastic review. I must go again sometime soon. I shall get round to doing my review of Machu Picchu eventually. by AndrewPo

An Exceptional review, I really want to go! xx by Chuckles1987

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Advantages: Possibly the best hotel I've ever stayed in
Disadvantages: Possibly the most expensive too

"I don't care what we're paying; it's worth it." This is not a sentiment often voiced in our value-conscious family, but as we sat sated by dinner at our window table overlooking the Urubamba gorge, I found myself not only unsurprised to hear my wife s ... Read review

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OMG see me seathing with jelousy if I could pick any country to go to its Peru to Cuzco Machupichu and see the incan ruins and practice my spanish your well written reviews just rub it in lol by Phildude

impressive place, excellent review.thank you for the piece of advice. On your future holiday you could consider visiting Romania. Carpathians are amazing :) by hynix

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Advantages: A must see, one of The Seven Wonders of The World
Disadvantages: It will always be expensive

Walking the Inca Trail is one of those 'do before you die' experiences so although it is not the cheapest of holidays, if its something you have always wanted to do then don't put it of any longer. I walked it in July 2007, the company I went with was Ll ... Read review

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Have to agree with you about the Pueblo. I was staying there just a week before you posted this review! by torr

It might be helpful to add how many miles (on average) you walked each day for anyone considering this. x by HotBabes

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Advantages: Visit one of the wonders of the world and meet amazing people
Disadvantages: Long and expensive flights. You must speak spanish

Peru is a place that you will visit and it will change your life. After spending 6 weeks there in summer 2004 it felt like a 2nd home and was very difficult to leave. To start off with the flights are very expensive to get there costing around £600. We fo ... Read review

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good but try a few paragraphs :-) by earlofaldgate

a nice review, but what the others said, if you paragraph your reviews, it will help the structuring too, try reading around some other travel reviews to see what sort of detail is required....also, i would suggest proof reading before submitting, i found some sentances a bit difficult to understand and had to read back over them, other than that though some really good information and tips in there! x by tazzywazzy

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New and unusual experience
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Incaredible!
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Pack your bags now
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Advantages: fantastic scenery, amazing experience, great sense of personal accomplishment
Disadvantages: Porters poorly paid

I walked the Inca Trail in June 2005, and it really was one of the best things I have ever done. When I decided I was going to travel to Peru, the Inca Trail was at the forefront of my mind as one of THE things that had to be done. I've never been mu ... Read review

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This is my dream and you have made it a little more easier to comprehend. I thought that this trip would actually kill me not being the fittest of people but you have given me an extremely in depth explanation of the experience. Also very helpful that you listed stuff I may need to take with me. by SophW13

I want to do this one day...When you get your green dot you can add pictures to your review. If you decide to edit and include them, please leave a message in my guest book as I would love to see them. by Essexgirl2006

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The Lost Village
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My experience on the trail
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Why stay some time in Lima
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Lima = globalisation at its worst
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My hometown
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Advantages: Peru
Disadvantages: My country

My country that you kwon, is on the east of the middle of South America with more than a million square kilometre area with tres regions Costa (Coast), Sierra and Selva or Jungle with Lima, the principal city of Peru, where the goverment of the country is ... Read review

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Needs to be written in better English to be more useful by magicloudz

Oh, do tell me more! I would absolutely love to visit one day! I realise that English is not your first language but I think it would make it easier to read if you run this through an English spell check, as there are some mistakes in there. Still fascinating though. anna by annaroos1

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New and unusual experience
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Incaredible!
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Pack your bags now
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Advantages: Plaza de Armas
Disadvantages: Nada

The Plaza de Armas was the Principal Seat of Lima when it was founded at 1535 by the Spanish Francisco Pizarro because it is the Centre of the Power of the Nation, bacause near the Rimac River has the Goverment with a middle of XX Century construction wit ... Read review

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Hi Daniel. Nice review, hoewever to make it higher rating you need to do 2 things: 1) Make sure you lay your review out like an essay, with clearly labelled headings, this makes it easier for people to see what a good review you wrote. 2) Make your review longer and more informative, write literally everything you can think of that might be helpful to another person trying to decide whether or not to buy this product/service. If you update your review please let me know, leave a message in my guest book. Have a nice day Shona by Shoka

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Advantages: Museum of Inquisisition
Disadvantages: Nothing

This museum was in the time of Spanish domination, the Inquisition, the place that having judgement named "Auto de fe" for faith themes like some doubts of God, the holy Trinity, Virgin Mary, etc with jail pains, tortures, etc since XVI century ending to ... Read review

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Incomprehensible review by magicloudz

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Advantages: A beautiful city in a stunning setting
Disadvantages: Far too popular for its own good

Cuzco is a truly beautiful little city with loads to offer, surrounded by some stunning mountain scenery. It's almost impossible not to fall in love with the place. Cuzco's full of narrow, winding cobbled streets, white colonial buildings, red-tiled roofs ... Read review

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Superb review. : ) donnie by donovan74

what a great experience by Claiiiree

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Cuzco and the inca trial
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